Re: polygon issues

[Manfred S. <man...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 14:12 -0700 schrieb Ethan Merritt:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2008 14:03:07 Manfred Schwarb wrote:
> > > > 2) clipping:
> > > >   At the plot borders, these objects seem to be clipped (cut off). As I use these objects as 
> > > >   somehow generic drawing objects in a mixture with "set arrow", things become 
> > > >   really messy, as arrows are not clipped.
> > > >   What I would need are objects that are not clipped, so I can use the whole screen.
> > > >   Up to now I found no way to deactivate this clipping feature. Is there a way to do so?
> > > 
> > > Heh.  You have no idea how much time I spent to get that clipping to work.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm :-) I guess doing this clipping is a reasonable default and what
> > most people probably expect.
> > 
> > > But yes, I can imagine there are cases when clipping is undesirable.
> > > The question is: is that a property of the object or a property of the whole plot?
> > > I'll have to think about it.
> 
> I have modified the code in CVS so that if all the polygon vertices are
> given in screen coordinates, then it is clipped against the full canvas
> rather than against the plot borders.
> 

Thanks a lot, yes this will work for me.
But this is probably quite confusing, if "set object rect" has other 
clipping properties than "set object polygon".
A possibility would be, of course, to add this scheme to the whole
"set object" class ...

Cheers,
Manfred